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Speak, Okinawa a memoir

"A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met...

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Main Author: Brina, Elizabeth Miki, 1981- (Author)
Other Authors: Hansen, Janet (Bookjacket designer)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Brina, Elizabeth Miki, > 1981-
Brina, Elizabeth Miki, > 1981- > Family.
Brina, Elizabeth Miki, > 1981- > Travel > Japan.
Japanese American women > Biography.
Japanese Americans > Ethnic identity.
Japanese Americans > Biography.
Ryukyuans > New York (State) > Biography.
Intercountry marriage > New York (State) > Syracuse.
Multiracial people > Biography.
Okinawa-ken (Japan) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Worse than the dog
  • Skwars
  • No name island
  • Erizabesu
  • One percent
  • The gray city
  • Before the enemy takes Japan
  • Miki
  • Without being taught
  • My mother's church
  • How they met
  • Too young, too old
  • Who is Kyoko Makiya?
  • The fastest runner
  • Missing ghosts
  • Bamboo
  • My mother's baptism
  • The first Amerians in Okinawa
  • I am American
  • I am sorry
  • Second honeymoon in Japan: a travelogue
  • Only three persons
  • We are here
  • Free Okinawa!
  • More apologies
  • Tadaima (I am home).

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